How to connect Claude to any app without coding: connectors, CLI, MCP, and custom tools
PawelHuryn · x · 2026-07-27
The post lays out four ways to connect Claude to apps without coding: use a built-in connector, use a command-line tool, plug in an existing MCP server, or build a custom tool when nothing else works.
It recommends choosing the most reliable path first: public APIs, then the app's own endpoints from a logged-in session, and browser automation only as a last resort. The graphic also lists examples like Gmail, Notion, Slack, Jira, GitHub, Stripe, ElevenLabs, Playwright, and Linear, and includes a copy-paste prompt for asking Claude to generate the tool.
The author says they built 28 tools across 16 services using three MCP servers, without writing any of them by hand.
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